Introduction

Hi, my name is Alexandra Ganopolski, but I go by Sasha. I was born in Brooklyn, New York. My cultural background is Ukrainian. Both my parents are Ukrainian, and my grandparents and great-grandparents are Ukrainian, but I think that I have some different roots in me because I am much darker than my family, so that has to come from somewhere. I speak English and Russian. Russian was my first language, and then I learned English, and now Russian died out in my family, but I am still fluent and can read and write.
I love to dance, and it’s a passion of mine. I have been dancing since I was four years old and still do it. I’ve danced a variety of styles from ballet, hip hop, modern, and jazz. My favorite form of dance has to be modern, though. I went to a performing arts middle school and high school, and my experiences there taught me so much more about dance and history and culture. Dancing in school made me realize that I love to do it as a hobby, but it’s not something that I would be able to do all the time. That’s when I realized that dance as a career was never an option for me. Also, I experienced singing when I was four. My mom entered me into a singing TV show, and I got in, and it was shown on Russian Television. I did that until I was twelve and was singing professionally and got to have recording sessions, be on the radio, perform in different countries and a lot of other exciting opportunities. It was never something that I wanted to do though, and I was really only doing it for my mom, so when I turned twelve, I quit and just did dance. I came to Baruch wanting to be a finance major, but since I have been here, I think that I want to be a marketing major. I was a marketing intern this summer, and I had the best time. I don’t know if I am set with being in marketing, but I want to experience a finance internship next year and figure out which one I like more.